229 Quotes by Jean Rhys

Lies are never forgotten, they go on and they grow.

If I could choose I would rather be happy than write.

Of course, as soon as a thing has happened it isn’t fantastic any longer, it’s inevitable. The inevitable is what you’re doing or have done. The fantastic is simply what you didn’t do.

I didn’t know, I didn’t know, I didn’t know.

Rain, forever raining. Drown me in sleep. And soon.

Only the magic and the dream are true – all the rest’s a lie. Let it go. Here is the secret. Here.

A vague procession of towns all exactly alike, a vague procession of men also exactly alike. One can drift like that for a long time, she found, carefully hiding the fact that this wasn’t what one had expected of life. Not in the very least.

Stephan was secretive and a liar, but he was a very gentle and expert lover. She was the petted, cherished child, the desired mistress, the worshipped, perfumed goddess. She was all these things to Stephan – or so he made her believe.

Human beings are struggling, and so they are egoists. But it’s wrong to say that they are wholy cruel – it’s a deformed view.